Risk Diversification And Up-Scaling Potential

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The development of sustainable insurance solutions requires the thorough risk assessment, modeling, and layering. Agricultural and climate risks are mainly of a systemic nature, i.e. they affect a large geographic area or large parts of the population simultaneously. If the insured risk is not adequately spread, one catastrophic event can threaten the viability of the whole scheme. To lower covariate risks, the portfolio thus needs to be diversified in terms of crops, type of risks, and different geographical regions.

Since 2010, the ILO's Impact Insurance Facility has been working with Sanasa Insurance Company Ltd. (SICL), to design simple, flexible, and affordable weather index insurance products for paddy farmers. From 2012 the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) of the IFC/World Bank Group has supported SICL for further expansion of WII products for paddy and tea farmers.

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The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) is a dedicated World Bank Group's program that facilitates access to finance for smallholder farmers, micro-entrepreneurs, and microfinance institutions through the provisions of catastrophic risk transfer solutions and index-based insurance in developing countries. Funded by the European Union, the governments of Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands, GIIF has facilitated more than 1.8 million contracts, covering approximately 7 million people, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The facility is part of the World Bank Group’s Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice.